Opinion: When speed dating works

Matchmaking can be a slow process. And sometimes the strongest and
longest relationships are forged out of a patient, measured
courtship.
And M&A can often be a drawn-out affair too, even in a
bilateral transaction.
But if any further evidence was needed of private equity's
unbridled passion for the intermediary space, it was on full
display withyesterday's quick-fire announcement of an agreement for
KKR-backed USI to buy Wells Fargo's insurance broking
business.
A deal timetable of less tha